Democrats are floating the court-packing idea as far and wide as possible in order to send a message to the constitutionally minded justices to watch it, watch how you rule, watch how you vote. That's how President Franklin D. Roosevelt won concessions from the court on his New Deal ideas.
After then-actor Ronald Reagan was fired by GE as host of CBS' "General Electric Theater" in 1962 at the behest of the Kennedy administration, the president-to-be famously switched parties, becoming a Republican.
It is sad that we as a nation find ourselves back at this same place again: A person resisting arrest, refusing to cooperate — and being killed during the confrontation ("Police killing of Daunte Wright threatens to spark summer of violence," Web, April 12). Police careers are destroyed. Why do our youth think it is appropriate to resist police who are performing their duties to investigate and enforce the laws regarding criminal behavior, especially when the outcome can be death?
Apparently President Biden does not mind if he loses Afghanistan ("Blinken in Afghanistan to sell Biden troop withdrawal," Web, April 15). I don't know if the decision was focus-grouped, but Mr. Biden may actually accrue credits from across the political spectrum for the end to this abysmal war, notwithstanding all the American and allied blood shed over the many years of fighting, and all the Afghan blood that will be spilled when score settling comes to Kabul.
"Corporate leaders line up against voting laws" (Page 1, April 15) chronicles hundreds of our nation's large corporations conspiring against states' rights and ability to set voting laws as set forth in the U.S. Constitution.
Weak leadership and politically motivated pandering from the Biden-Harris administration have launched America into a self-inflicted crisis. The unofficial numbers of illegal border crossers for March exceeded any single month in more than 20 years.
Biden's ambassador to the UN, who is supposed to promote American interests around the world, told the National Action Network that America is systemically racist, insisting that "White supremacy is weaved into our founding documents and principles." This sort of talk echoes the lies of Chinese Communist propagandists, stokes division and hatred in America, and diminishes the U.S. on the world stage.
Less than three months since the inauguration, President Biden is facing an immigration crisis of his own making.
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